Election of 16-year old Michael I of Russia | Mikhail Romanov, the first Tsar of the Romanov dynasty

* 1878 – Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia, younger brother of Tsar Nicholas II ( d. 1918 )

** Tsar Michael I of Russia ( b. 1596 )

This constant retreat led to the unpopularity of Field Marshal Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly and a veteran, Prince Mikhail Kutuzov, was made the new Commander-in-Chief by Tsar Alexander I.

After Nicolas I became Tsar, however, Bakunin senior gave up politics and devoted himself to the care of his estate and the education of his children, five girls and five boys, the oldest of whom was Mikhail ( Michael ).

* State helmets (" Jericho caps ") of Tsar Michael Fyodorovich, 1620-s, master N. Davydov: and

* Crown of Tsar Michael Fyodorovich, 1627:

* Golden chain of Tsar Michael Fyodorovich, 1nd half of the 17th century.

* Golden throne of Tsar Michael Fyodorovich, Persia, before 1642:

The Russo-Japanese War is on and Tsar Nicholas ( Michael Jayston ) is warned by Count Witte ( Laurence Olivier ) and Grand Duke Nicholas ( Harry Andrews ) that the war is futile and costing too many lives.

Michael Romanov or Michael of Russia ( 1596 – 1645 ) was the first Russian Tsar of the house of Romanov.

In 1621, the voyevodas were forbidden by Tsar Michael to take bribes as this had become a problem.

Given that he never reigned, his brother Nicholas II is regarded as the last actual, or de facto Tsar of Russia, and Michael is relegated to a largely forgotten footnote of history.

Nevertheless he is sometimes referred to by historians as Michael II and the last Tsar of Russia.

After the assassination, the new Tsar Alexander III moved his family, including Michael, to the greater safety of Gatchina Palace, which was 29 miles southwest of Saint Petersburg and surrounded by a moat.

Upon the outbreak of World War I, Michael telegraphed the Tsar requesting permission to return to Russia to serve in the army, providing his wife and son could come too.

General Aleksei Brusilov, Michael's commander on the south-eastern front, begged him to tell the Tsar of " the need for immediate and drastic reforms ", but Michael warned him, " I have no influence ... My brother has time and time again had warnings and entreaties of this kind from every quarter.

On the night of 27 – 28 February 1917, Michael attempted to return to Gatchina from Petrograd, where he had been in conference with Rodzyanko and from where he had telegraphed the Tsar, but revolutionary patrols and sporadic fire prevented his progress.

In an attempt to take advantage of confusion expected after the death of the Polish king, Tsar Michael of Russia ordered an attack on the Commonwealth.

Through the recommendation of James I he was appointed one of the physicians to the Tsar Michael I of Russia.

Tsar Michael Asen III of Bulgaria, newly in conflict with Vladislav's cousin Stefan Dečanski ( successor of Milutin ), started to support Vladislav as the rightful monarch of whole Serbia, but this support showed insufficient.

He is named after Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia, the younger brother of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, and first cousin of three of his grandparents.

Prince Michael has a strong interest in Russia, and displays some physical resemblance to Tsar Nicholas II, a first cousin of three of his grandparents.

* Alexius Mikhailovich ( 1629-1676 ), Tsar of Russia

Tsar Paul I of Russia sent, among other rewards, a gold box studded with diamonds and similar gifts in silver arrived from other European rulers.

' Just think how rich they are, how many Pasternaks they have -- as many as there were Pushkins in the Russia of Tsar Nicholas ... Not much has changed.

Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, being well informed, tried to stop the upcoming conflict on 8 June, by sending an identical personal message to the Kings of Bulgaria and Serbia, offering to act as arbitrator according to the provisions of the 1912 Serbo-Bulgarian treaty.

There, with the active aid of the Russian government, he at length got access to the remainder of the precious Sinaitic codex, and persuaded the monks to present it to Tsar Alexander II of Russia, at whose cost it was published in 1862 ( in four folio volumes ).

* 1825 – Tsar Alexander I of Russia ( b. 1777 )

* 1825 – Advocates of liberalism in Russia rise up against Tsar Nicholas I and are put down in the Decembrist Revolt in St. Petersburg.

The word Tsar derives from Latin Caesar, but this title was used in Russia as equivalent to King ; the error occurred when medieval Russian clerics referred to the biblical Jewish kings with the same title that was used to designate Roman and Byzantine rulers-Caesar.

* 1613 – Mikhail I is elected unanimously as Tsar by a national assembly, beginning the Romanov dynasty of Imperial Russia.

* 1728 – Tsar Peter III of Russia, husband of Catherine the Great ( d. 1762 )

But in 1648 beginning of the Khmelnytsky Uprising in Ukraine, at this time in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, which continues until 1654, and results is concluded in the city of Pereyaslav during the meeting between the Cossacks of the Zaporozhian Host and Tsar Alexey I of Russia the Treaty of Pereyaslav.

As the result of the battle, the Seven Boyars, a group of Russian nobles, deposed the tsar Vasily Shuysky on, and recognized the Polish prince Władysław IV Vasa as the Tsar of Russia on.

Napoleon made a major misstep when he declared war on Russia after a dispute with Tsar Alexander I and launched an invasion of Russia in 1812.

Since playing a major role in the defeat of Napoleon, Russia had been regarded as militarily invincible, but, once pitted against a coalition of the great powers of Europe, the reverses it suffered on land and sea exposed the weakness of Tsar Nicholas ' regime.

Hotel Astoria ( Saint Petersburg ) | Hotel Astoria and a statue of Tsar Nicholas I of Russia in front, in Saint Petersburg, Russia

The last attempted impeachment occurred in 1848, when David Urquhart accused Lord Palmerston of having signed a secret treaty with Imperial Russia and of receiving monies from the Tsar.

* 1676 – Feodor III becomes Tsar of Russia.

* 1676 – Tsar Alexis I of Russia ( b. 1629 )

* 1696 – Tsar Ivan V of Russia, Russian tsar ( b. 1666 )

* 1918 – Bolsheviks kill Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his family ( Julian calendar date ).

" After the paper published an article strongly criticising the monarchy in Russia, the Russian Tsar Nicholas I, an ally of the Prussian monarchy, requested that the Rheinische Zeitung be banned.